Love is our most exalted connection with everything outside of us, which harmonizes us with nature and its laws. Love is a means to become like nature, which is a quality of love, bestowal and connection. It exists outside of…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
How do societies change, and what are the major forces of change?
Our nature is to enjoy, to receive pleasure, and our desire to enjoy constantly grows. As a result of its development, it demands new and different fulfillment time and again. Likewise, the more the desire to enjoy grows, the more…
Is pride evil?
Pride is a key expression of our egoistic nature, where we want to feel that we are above other people. Pride is given to us in order to realize the extent to which we are indeed egoistic, that we think…
Why are the Olympics used as a political stage?
We have no need for the Olympic Games anymore because they have become a place where we pit man against man and country against country. They are no longer games of connection, but competition has become like war. This is…
What is the spiritual meaning of the color white?
First, white is not a color because it does not absorb anything. A color absorbs something, but the concept of white is that it receives nothing from the outside. Therefore, white is felt as nonexistent. White is seemingly transparent. It…
What is currently the single largest problem for human beings as a species?
The very foundation of our attitude toward life, nature and everything else is our ego, which is a desire to enjoy at the expense of others and nature. Therefore, our most significant problem is our desire to exploit for personal…
Are American Jews and Israeli Jews enemies?
Today, most American Jews wish to disassociate themselves with the State of Israel. If tomorrow, the State of Israel would cease to exist, most American Jews would regret it for no more than a few minutes, if that. They wish…
Does time exist?
Time is nonexistent in and of itself. We exist in a single state, and we feel the flow of time in relation to the process of our development toward discovering more and more of the single, integral and perfect state…
Should we worry about a large asteroid hitting earth soon?
NASA is working on trying to hit an asteroid that might make its way to earth. They sent a missile that is supposed to hit the asteroid in ten months, and will measure the extent to which they could deflect…
What does the future hide from us?
We have been created such that we should build our own future from how we adjust ourselves in the present, and not draw it from various sources and wait passively for the future to simply happen. We have to make…
What is global interdependence? What are some examples?
We were created as interdependent beings. The more we evolve as a humanity, the more we find ourselves becoming increasingly dependent on each other. We find ourselves depending on each other more and more in several fields of human activity,…
Why are educated people more likely to be racist antisemites?
In 1936, Albert Einstein wrote his friend a letter where he discussed the atmosphere of Jew hatred in American society. He wrote about the magnitude of antisemitism, especially in the academy, but also in industry and in the banking sector.…